{"id":134,"date":"2006-05-22T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2006-07-28T18:55:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T23:55:03","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-how-to-make-your-computer-even-more-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/134\/retro-scan-of-the-week-how-to-make-your-computer-even-more-boring","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;How to Make Your Computer Even More Boring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/boring_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/boring_small.jpg\" alt=\"Boring Computer\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\"><em>Sounds awesome!  Where do I sign up?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, this is not a Photoshop job.  Midwest Scientific Instruments really wanted to make your computer more boring, presumably by making you have to do less work to load a program into system memory.  If this is the standard of &#8220;boring,&#8221; then I suppose my current computer is about 2000% more boring than the average computer in 1977.  In fact, according to Moore&#8217;s Law of Boredom, this trend should continue well into the future.  Moore famously postulated in 1968 that the Integral Boredom Factor (IBF) of computing devices will double every 12-24 months.  So far his postulate has impressively held true.  Only time will tell if bloated software companies such as Microsoft can complicate things enough to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Scanned by VC&#038;G from Byte Magazine, February 1977]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image in a blog post, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds awesome! Where do I sign up? No, this is not a Photoshop job. Midwest Scientific Instruments really wanted to make your computer more boring, presumably by making you have to do less work to load a program into system memory. If this is the standard of &#8220;boring,&#8221; then I suppose my current computer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}